The maths block at school has had better days. It has a funny smell that's nothing to do with the maths teachers and looks a bit tatty round the edges. Paint is peeling and windows are so easily smashed that once someone managed to break one in my room with a conker.
A few months ago someone came in to look under the floors to see why we had such an awful smell. It turned out that a pipe from the sink in the office wasn't connected so all this water was just pouring into the ground under the floor. This was fixed (though there's still a smell, we think it's mice) but in doing so some sort of seal was broken.
This means there's now a dangerously high level of Radon in our office. The area the school is in is quite bad for it anyway. Contrary to what we first thought, symptons of being exposed to Radon do not include tiredness, headaches and dislike of year eights. However prolonged exposure causes lung cancer so we're now being limited to an hour a day there. It's more of a nuisance than anything else.
2008-04-26 @ 09:10